Channel Tunnel rail link postponed

Title

Channel Tunnel rail link postponed

Genre

Interview

TX Date

5 Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:04:27

Description

Elena Curti interviews Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson following British Rail’s announcement that the proposal for the high speed rail link with the Channel Tunnel will be postponed for a year, after the government made it clear it would not subsidise from public funds an environmentally friendly but more expensive tunnel route under London. Parkinson defends the government’s position.

Contributors

Cecil Parkinson; Elena Curti

Keywords

London; British Rail; Public finance; Railways; Environment; Channel tunnels; Railway construction; Railway tunnels

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